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U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, faced a skeptical and at times testy crowd Tuesday as dozens of people arrived at an afternoon meeting to make sure he knew they would not let the Affordable Care Act end without a fight.

Nearly one-third of Colorado's hospitals are refusing to offer terminally ill patients the option of physician-assisted suicide — even though voters last fall overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative legalizing the practice.

Leading enterprise IT companies — Amazon, Apple, IBM, Google, Microsoft — are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning. And even though many healthcare providers are still in wait-and-see mode when it comes to these emerging technologies, there are tangible reasons to consider deploying them sooner rather than later.